Well we're told not to criticise particular versions of God because there are so many. So why not a God who is utterly hands-off?!

And yes, claiming a God whose mucky hands are all over evolution is a total copout. It's a way of having your cake and eating it. Most sensible people of faith or no faith know that evolution can't be denied. But evolution has no striving for goals, no particular direction, is full of errors and blind endings and does not aspire to a perfect finale. Not only do you not need God in all that, there is simply no room for him. Not a single aspect of evolution needs a dose of Godly input or explanation. Trying to harmonise God with evolution is simply desperate. The only honest thing is to choose.